{"id":287,"date":"2005-03-08T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/03\/08\/machine-man-3-ten-for-the-mean-machine\/"},"modified":"2005-03-08T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T21:24:00","slug":"machine-man-3-ten-for-the-mean-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/287","title":{"rendered":"Machine Man #3 [1978] &#8211; Ten-For, the Mean Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Machine Man is still in the sanitarium, receiving the visual of the distress call, projecting an image of a ship plunging into a distant star while one of the patients channels the verbal distress call. While MM begins to work on a space-time bridge for a rescue, the army, led by Colonel Kragg home in on MM&#8217;s location.<\/p>\n<p>MM starts the device built to the alien&#8217;s specifications, but finds out that it was designed to exchange them for the alien, and almost gets sucked into deep space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/Machine-Man-3-1978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3516\" alt=\"Machine Man #3 [1978]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/Machine-Man-3-1978-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/Machine-Man-3-1978-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/Machine-Man-3-1978-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/Machine-Man-3-1978-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/Machine-Man-3-1978.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MM manages to escape and redesigns the device for a straight rescue, even though the alien makes it clear that he doesn&#8217;t care who is sacrificed for his sake. The alien arrives, proving to be a robot named Ten-For, a Holocaust Specialist First Class. Just then the army attacks, mistakenly locking in on Ten-For instead of MM. Ten-For partially disables MM and goes off to attack the army, while Doc Spalding attempts to help MM, who has just realized that &#8220;Holocaust Specialist&#8221; probably means bad news.<\/p>\n<p>A decent story, with some nice visuals. Ten-For is a bit over the top this issue, but would prove to be an interesting villain in the issues ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Royer inks the 17-page story, and the Kirby Checklist credits John Verpoorten with the inks on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby also writes a text page, &#8220;The Unexpected Robot&#8221;, speculating about how man will react to competition from robots like MM in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1978<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machine Man is still in the sanitarium, receiving the visual of the distress call, projecting an image of a ship plunging into a distant star while one of the patients channels the verbal distress call. 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